ASsman
11-07-2004, 01:47 PM
Hmmm, let's change some of those words. Better yet, how about just one. Let's put Bush instead of Stalin. I will the provide arguments for this.
FYI: Got this quote from the History Channel Special Stalin:Man of Steel, from a survivor of the Gulags.
"No Bread on the table, but Bush on the wall"
Let's break it down, so that people can't attack my playing around with the quote. But also my arguments backing it up.
1. It can mean that the Lower-Class, Lower Middle-Class, is getting the shaft (e.g taxes, healthcare, hell even the sending of their children to a false war, Since the majority of the Reserves are from this income bracket). While they stay loyal to Bush.
2. Another point that can be made using this quote, blind patriotism. How the media and FOX propaganda can fill peoples heads with false words, and unjust causes.
3. This could also be used to illustrate the point of "fool me twice" idea. So far they are not fed "no bread on the table", promises have been made. Bush can't say "I won't lie like the last President", "Ill do everything I promise", "So I guess I better promise to invade Iran". He has had 4 years, "Bush" is still "on the wall".
4. We could look at it in a deeper, vaguer sense. Stalin was loved by the ignorant, hated by the ones who knew the truth. Hated also by those directly effected by his atrocities. Of course we will never see (I have not) the statistics for how many soldiers voted for Bush/Kerry. And we never will, Pentagon knows what it is able to do to moral.
People who saw this (like the person from which this quote was taken) thought it was preposterous. People who didn't, merely put up Stalin posters on their walls while others starved to death. (not to say some did it because of the NKVD, and not wanting to see un-patriotic...another parallel can be drawn here too, but I won't go there right now).
FYI: Got this quote from the History Channel Special Stalin:Man of Steel, from a survivor of the Gulags.
"No Bread on the table, but Bush on the wall"
Let's break it down, so that people can't attack my playing around with the quote. But also my arguments backing it up.
1. It can mean that the Lower-Class, Lower Middle-Class, is getting the shaft (e.g taxes, healthcare, hell even the sending of their children to a false war, Since the majority of the Reserves are from this income bracket). While they stay loyal to Bush.
2. Another point that can be made using this quote, blind patriotism. How the media and FOX propaganda can fill peoples heads with false words, and unjust causes.
3. This could also be used to illustrate the point of "fool me twice" idea. So far they are not fed "no bread on the table", promises have been made. Bush can't say "I won't lie like the last President", "Ill do everything I promise", "So I guess I better promise to invade Iran". He has had 4 years, "Bush" is still "on the wall".
4. We could look at it in a deeper, vaguer sense. Stalin was loved by the ignorant, hated by the ones who knew the truth. Hated also by those directly effected by his atrocities. Of course we will never see (I have not) the statistics for how many soldiers voted for Bush/Kerry. And we never will, Pentagon knows what it is able to do to moral.
People who saw this (like the person from which this quote was taken) thought it was preposterous. People who didn't, merely put up Stalin posters on their walls while others starved to death. (not to say some did it because of the NKVD, and not wanting to see un-patriotic...another parallel can be drawn here too, but I won't go there right now).